The Water Activities of the Bureau of Water Hygiene

Abstract

The author discusses programs under way to update drinking water standards, control interstate carrier water supplies, conduct studies on community water supplies, and provide technical services to state and private agencies. He also discusses other upcoming activities of the Bureau of Water Hygiene.

Classifying Drinking Water Systems to Improve Their Effectiveness

“…These federal water data systems evolved from earlier limited surveys that were conducted by the US Public Health Service, a predecessor of USEPA. It found in the late 1960s a “bewildering array of large and small and independent and interconnected systems” (Harris ). Now, although the CWSS is scientifically designed and brings some order into the discussion about the array of systems, the water utility industry is still described as “highly fragmented” (Deloitte ), with many loose ends in defining and classifying ownership and governance patterns.…”